linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] tile: Add underscores to defintions

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Date:	Thu, 10 Jul 2014 14:50:52 -0400
From:	Nick Krause <xerofoify@...il.com>
To:	Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@...era.com>
Cc:	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tile: Add underscores to defintions

On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 2:19 PM, Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@...era.com> wrote:
> On 7/5/2014 12:32 AM, Nicholas Krause wrote:
>>
>> In file drv_xgbe_impl.h I fixed the definitions for Size Small,
>> Size Large, Size Jumbo to have underscores before and after to
>> follow kernel coding style for internel defentions.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Nicholas Krause <xerofoify@...il.com>
>> ---
>>   arch/tile/include/hv/drv_xgbe_impl.h | 15 +++------------
>
>
> I don't think there is a kernel coding style for internal definitions.
> It's true that double-underscores mean "more raw" in many places, like
> for things like set_bit() vs __set_bit(), but that's not really
> applicable here.  These files are not exported outside of the kernel
> in any case so we don't need any special treatment for them to mark them
> as "internal definitions".
>
> The comment in any case certainly is silly.  It dates back to Jan 2007
> in our internal version control system.  The tilepro hv headers in
> question are largely frozen at this point in our internal "upstream"
> repository where we take these headers from, so it doesn't seem worth
> the effort to try to improve the comments there, nor worth adding skew
> between those headers and the community headers.
>
> --
> Chris Metcalf, Tilera Corp.
> http://www.tilera.com
Chris ,
Would you like me to remove this comment in a patch instead?
Cheers Nick
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